The Food Pilot has high-level expertise and a complete infrastructure to answer all of the industry’s questions about shelf-life.
Using the Food Pilot production lines, new ingredients, recipes or processes can be evaluated on a semi-industrial scale.
Packaging food under modified atmosphere can also be studied at the Food Pilot.
After packaging, the microbiological, (bio)chemical, physical, and sensory quality is studied in the laboratories described above.
Finally, the Food Pilot has a large collection of isolates of pathogenic or spoilage organisms which can be used in challenge tests where microorganisms are deliberately inoculated into the food products.
